title: The empirical foundations of psychoanalytic approaches to psychological testing.
abstract: The view that psychoanalytic approaches to psychological testing lack empirical foundations is disputed by systematically examining the ways in which psychoanalytic theory expands the sources of data available to the psychological tester at each step in the assessment process. The contention is made that it is unscientific to restrict the concept of what constitutes scientific rigor to formal experimentation with statistical analysis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego.
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Jaffe
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010556:Personality Tests; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011594:Psychometrics